Though uneven, this story of personal and cultural trauma is not without its rewards.

• Fiction,

An aggressive, persuasive call to arms about fighting climate change.

• Non-Fiction,
• Essays & Literary Criticism,
• Religion,
• Social Science,

What happens when a woman who can intuit animals’ emotions is forced to use her power for ill?

• Fiction,

A long-serving lawmaker brings us the amazing real-life story of a WWII-era Filipina heroine.

• Non-Fiction,
• Biography & Memoir,

An engrossing look at the fight to memorialize the former president’s final resting place.

• Non-Fiction,
• History,
• United States,

This gripping whodunit is also a wise meditation on what it means to be human.

• Fiction,
• Mystery & Suspense,

Though trailblazing, this ambitious widow was no protofeminist.

• Non-Fiction,
• Biography & Memoir,

Dames, drunks, and dirty cops run roughshod over 1950s L.A. in this hardboiled, hard-to-put-down tale.